This week St Luke’s is taking part in ‘Hour of code’. Year 3 began their lesson by looking at some of the vocabulary involved in coding such as output and algorithms, which they had to match the correct definitions. They then moved on to using coding to make various sea Read more…
This week, Year 3 Birch’s elf on the shelf left a note telling them to meet him in Kayden’s garden at 2pm and to take Year 5 with them. When we arrived, we saw lots of elves with messages for us. They had wrapped and hidden some of their favourite Read more…
This week we have be learning what primary colours are and how to make secondary colours. First, we created a colour wheel making our own secondary colours by mixing . We then used our knowledge of colours and took inspiration from Andy Warhol, to create a piece of art split Read more…
Year 3 have been re-writing the story of ‘Charlie and the chocolate factory’ including a setting description of the chocolate room. This week the children will be writing a setting description independently, however, the room they will be writing about is a chocolate park. To help our imagination and vocabulary, we Read more…
Year 3 have been learning about how different faiths view and celebrate their God. As part of this, we have been looking at the Muslim faith. Today we discussed Shahada and looked at how it is displayed on things such as wall hangings, plates and pendants in Arabic calligraphy. We Read more…
In our topic lessons we have been looking at food groups and healthy eating. To support us in our learning we have had visitors in for the last two Fridays. We spent the first half of the session outside doing sports games for exercise and the second half inside learning Read more…
Wow Rochdale music services what an amazing assembly, thank you so much! The children thoroughly enjoyed you coming in and were really keen to answer questions about the instruments you were playing and talk about them. You have inspired a lot of children to continue to play their instruments or Read more…
Can you guess from the pictures of our classroom, which book Year 3 Birch is reading this half term? We are thoroughly enjoying reading this book in our daily class reading time. Well done to all the children who won a ‘Wonka’s Golden Ticket’ for reading every night this week. Read more…
A fantastic first day back for Year 3 Birch. Our topic for this half term is ‘Scrumdidlyumptious’ in which we will be learning all about food. To engage us in this topic, we spent our 1st lesson food tasting. We tried a variety of fruits and vegetables and discussed with Read more…
Over the last couple of weeks Year 3 have been learning parts of the body in French. To help us with his we have been singing and dancing along to the French head, shoulders knees and toes and to Jean petit qui danse.
